/fa/ - Fashion

>>7420100
rick doesn't reinvent his language every season because it isn't relevant to his character; tom ford doesn't reinvent himself ever because he's just not very creative.

>>7420096
one you create a garment, you can take away the purely stylistic elements and use it as a block; you can turn one jacket into a lot of jacket by just slashing away and replacing the lapels, the pockets, the collar, and so forth. most designers are really hamfisted about this, and if you're observant you can go through a store and look and see that all the jackets and shirts and pants are the same thing with the pocket styles changed. low level mall labels actually license their designs, and you can go from one store to another and spot them selling the same sweater or top with merely different fabrications, or maybe they added epaulettes....

rick uses blocks, using blocks is necessary to actually get collection done in a timely manner, but he removes whole panels and replaces them completely, and he alters blocks so thoroughly that you can't see the original anymore. go to any rick stockist, and look at the men's leather jackets, and you'll see that they're all actually identical, except that he's completely cut away the front panels and drafted completed new ones to replace them. and then when he's done with that, he goes back, and cuts away the back panels and totally reworks them, then he does the sleeves, then he remixes all of these panels together and the result is an avalanche of wildly variant pieces all built on the same foundation.

>>7196015
>what if the fabric could magically disappear when you don't need it to permit you to actually move?

doesn't work like that